Fitting.



No. 661,352. Patanted Nov. |900. .1. n.' mmm.A

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(Application mea Dec. 19, w99.)

(No Modal.)

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JOHN REDFERN MOODY, OF PERRY, IOVA.

FITTING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 661,352, dated November 6, 1900. Application flledDecnibei 19, 1899l Serial No. 740,855. (No model.)

To all whom t 7am/y concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN REDFERN MOODY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Perry, in the county of Dallas and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Fitting, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved fitting more especially designed for effectively repairing broken water, steam, or other pipes, for connecting pipes with each other, and for connecting pipes with elbows, reducers, Ts, valves, and other devices without requiring threading of the pipe or the device with which the pipe is to be connected. 1

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is asectional plan view of the improvement applied to a broken pipe. Fig. 2 is a sectional end view of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement as arranged on a T.

The arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 represents the device applied to the adjacent pipe ends A A to be connected with each other, and the said ends A A' are for this purpose engaged externally by the ends of a fittingin the shape of a tube B, formed with external threads B Il, on which screw the internal threads of couplings C C, respectively, each formed at its outer end with an inwardly-extending an nular flange C3,surrounding the respective end A or A. The internal thread of each coupling C preferably extends about half the length of the coupling, as is plainly indicated in Fig. 1, but may extend half or full length of the coupling, and in the outer portion of the coupling is placed a packing D, adapted to rest on or abut at its inner edge against a sectional collar E, fitted into an annular groove A2, formed externallyon the corresponding end A or A.

,As shown in Fig. 1, the collars E are loof the broken ends of the pipe, and at the sanrelo time a free communication is established between the ends A A by way of the tube l If desired, the sectional collars E may L omitted, so that the packings D abut directlA against the ends of the tube B, and when th, couplings are screwed up a tight joint is hat` between the pipe ends, the coupling, and the tube B. It is understood that the tube B has an inner diameter slightly in excess of the external diameter of the ends A A of the broken pipe, so as to permit of conveniently sliding the ends of the tube B over the said ends A A'. The collars E are made in seetions, so as to be readily fitted into the annular grooves A2, the collars being of sufficient depth to extend with half their distance into the annular groove, the remaining half being beyond the peripheral surface of the corresponding ends A A.

The object of the groove and the sectional collars is to insure a tight joint, as above explained, and to hold the tube and pipe ends in proper position relatively to eachother, so that pressure or motion of the pipe will not pull it out of the tube B.

In the construction shown in Fig. 3 a series of pipes A3 A4 A5 are connected with the itting F in the form of a T in the same mam ner as the end of the pipe A or A with the tube B-namely, by couplings C, screwing on the ends of the T F, and packings D pressed against the pipes, and stop-collars E abutting on the T ends to limit the inward movement of the pipe ends into the T and to insure a tight joint, as above explained.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A device of the class described, compris ing a pipe-fitting with external threads and adapted to receive the end of a pipe, a collar fitted on the pipe end, and removably secured thereto but held against longitudinal movement thereon, the said collar abutting on the Inc n I eeiee end of the tting, a coupling slipped over the pipe and screwing on the threads of the fitting, and apackin g in the coupling and adapted to be compressed against the collarsnb stantially as described.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a pipe-fitting with external threads, and adapted to receive the end of the pipe, the said pipe being formed near its end with an external annular groove, a sectional collar engaging the annular groove in the pipe end, and abutting on the end of the fitting, a coupling slipped over the pipe and screwing on the threads of the itting, and a packing resting against the collar and adapted to be compressed by the said coupling, substantially as described.

A device of the class described, compris- JOHN REDFERN MOODY.

Witnesses:

J. M. TYES, L. M. BESSER. 

